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Greetings to all!



Pumped for the winter and ready to get on a mountain! Grew up skiing often and for some reason went 10 years without hitting the slopes.... Made a last second run up to Snowshoe last year in March and needless to say, I haven't stopped thinking about getting back since we left.



Heading to Snowshoe in a week, and hope to make a couple more trips over the next couple months. Anybody have experience with the other locations in WV? (besides winterplace which I have been to). Are they worth the drive? Weighing options of a couple more drivable trips for the winter or just one out to Colorado or Utah.

@QC_Pirate 294430 wrote:Greetings to all!



Pumped for the winter and ready to get on a mountain! Grew up skiing often and for some reason went 10 years without hitting the slopes.... Made a last second run up to Snowshoe last year in March and needless to say, I haven't stopped thinking about getting back since we left.



Heading to Snowshoe in a week, and hope to make a couple more trips over the next couple months. Anybody have experience with the other locations in WV? (besides winterplace which I have been to). Are they worth the drive? Weighing options of a couple more drivable trips for the winter or just one out to Colorado or Utah.



Where are you driving from? There will be a group gathering at Timberline/CV the last weekend of Feb if you want to get an introduction from locals.

Driving from Charlotte. Looks like they are about an hour further which isn't too bad. The questions would be how does their skiing experience compare to snowshoe? Good/ample lodging and nightlife options? Does the extra drive time add additional travel concerns? I don't have 4 wheel drive and any trip up the mountains with potential bad weather is always a white knuckler for me

All depends on what you think is worth the extra drive. If it's nightlife, then Tline/CV is probably not worth the extra miles.



Here's a Trip Report that has a few pics of both places:

http://www.skinc.com/messageboard/showt ... hp?t=15793

@QC_Pirate 294440 wrote:Driving from Charlotte. Looks like they are about an hour further which isn't too bad. The questions would be how does their skiing experience compare to snowshoe? Good/ample lodging and nightlife options? Does the extra drive time add additional travel concerns? I don't have 4 wheel drive and any trip up the mountains with potential bad weather is always a white knuckler for me



anytime you are dealing with a white kinuckler means you are heading to an adventure, I love that--and even though the canaan valley may not be extreme it definately gets your heart ponding in a storm or in the trees-- I love CV and WG and TL although I don't pretend to be a regular at any of those great places -- and the scary drive on a high weather day up to wisp



Snowshoe is also ok, and can get spectacular shots of snow.... there's a bar there I love going too as well ... It's honestly all so good if you plan around conditions, which I know is hard



There are so many great experiences recorded, just do a search



Oh yeah and when is the summit?

By the way, my avatar is from Canaan Valley Resort, maybe 5-6 years ago, but still one of the greatest runs of my life

Oh hell. Another pirate.

Maybe he knows how to talk like a pirate. Wasn't it the Gnar who was always doing that? Wonder where that Floridiot is now.

Thanks for all the input folks! Timberline & Canaan may be in the cards this winter. Indeed a proud Pirate here, Servire!

@skipink 294639 wrote:Maybe he knows how to talk like a pirate. Wasn't it the Gnar who was always doing that? Wonder where that Floridiot is now.



He might have but we had that dude from north GA that got carried away with it.